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How is LaTeX now 4Gb? I haven't touched it in years, but I can't fathom how it's grown so much.
by ja27 14y ago
How is LaTeX now 4Gb? I haven't touched it in years, but I can't fathom how it's grown so much.
- gglanzani 14y agoIt's not. 4GB includes almost 4GB of packages that you don't need to have "bare" LaTeX.
- ja27 14y agoI know, but what is in even the biggest set of optional packages to reach 4GB? Fonts? Viewers and tools? Maybe it's just the old unix fart in me, but we've had entire OSs with many GUI apps in much less than 1GB.
- drobilla 14y agoIt isn't. That figure is more like the size of everything there is to do with LaTeX, uncompressed, than the size of LaTeX itself.